COVID-19: FICCI urges government to ramp up testing, open vaccination for 18-45 years age group The states may be advised to utilise the facilities in the private sector to the maximum to achieve the desired testing capacity. Share Via Email | A+A A- By PTI NEW DELHI: Industry body FICCI has urged the government to ramp up COVID testing across the states and open up the vaccination for the age group 18-45 years, while assuring it of the complete support of the industry in fighting the pandemic. "We are currently testing about 11 lakh samples a day, while we had reached the level of testing 15 lakh samples a day in January. Further, there is capacity of performing much more tests with 2,440 labs in the country operational for COVID testing, including more than 1,200 from the private sector," FICCI President Uday Shankar said in a letter to the Union Health & Family Welfare minister Harsh Vardhan.